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From: dgb@mgwess.UUCP (Donald Beahm)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Poetic justice
Message-ID: <14907@mgwess.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-May-85 10:19:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 28 10:19:59 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 31-May-85 01:01:03 EDT
Organization: AT&T Consumer Products - Montgomery Illinois
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The following article from "Illinois Avaition" is one persons idea of
poetic justice from the Aviation Community:


                        MAN BITES DOG

        In a reversal of roles most airports are unaccustomed to,
a Torrance,   California attorney has recently filed suit to raze
homes in a 5 mile radius of the airport because they are  ruining
his  free  access  to  the  airport.   Since his letter to 20,000
residents states the situation so eloquently  it  is  printed  in
full.   "I  deeply  regret  the need for trying to take away your
home.  However,   you must realize that  I  have  as  much  money
invested  in  my  airplane as you have  invested in your home and
that my airplane is just as important to me as your  home  is  to
you.  My airplane is of no use to me without an airport to land".

        "Therefore, since your elected officials  are  trying  to
take  my airplane away from me so you can enjoy your home, I have
no choice but to try to take your home away from  you  so  I  can
enjoy  my  airplane.   I  assure  you  we  have advised each City
Council member that you were going to be sued, and they  told  us
they  that  they  really  didn't  care".   Needless  to  say, the
Torrance City Council has received a few telephone calls.

Quoted from: "ILLINOIS AVIATION" Vol. 37, No. 3, May/June, 1985